The Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal released its 54th issue, which includes an article written by Tamela and Russ entitled, "Mending a Frayed Net: HealthSpark Foundation's Safety Net Resiliency Initiative." The article, copied below, can be found on the Social Innovation's Journal's website...

We are pleased to welcome and introduce John Ramirez, Jr. to our foundation staff. John joined HealthSpark in mid-January as the new Controller. In this role, John will have overall responsibility for financial planning, management, oversight and reporting for HealthSpark. John comes to the...

On Thursday, March 14, we hosted a luncheon for funders to discuss the findings from a just-released report from the Center for Social Innovation entitled " Racial Equity and Homelessness in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Initial Findings ". With funding from our foundation, Your Way Home hired...

We have released the first-ever Best Practices Guide for Montgomery County Food Pantries. Since we began working in a targeted fashion with food pantries in Montgomery County in 2014, we heard a repeated request for a guide that would provide practical and detailed information on how they could...

Photo by Anthony Pezzotti, Philadelphia Inquirer staff photographer. Ginny Kahr, 70, is burdened with troubles she couldn’t foresee. Never did she think she’d be living alone on $1,200 a month in federally subsidized housing in Lansdale’s Schwenckfeld Manor . And she couldn’t have imagined that a...

As part of its Resiliency Initiative, we are launching a new Leadership Capacity Building Program for safety net providers working in Montgomery County. This program was created based on feedback we received from health and human services leaders about the need for training that would: Bolster...